3rd party tool force installing older version of framework

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moondaddy

I want to know what my risk is of corrupting something on my computer by
installing an older version of the framework over my current (up todate
version). I find this hard to believe, but I purchased a copy of Robohelp
office pro for .net and when I tried to install it, it tried to install the
..net framework even though its already on my machine. Everything I do is
develop .net apps so I'm very reluctant to take a chance of corrupting
things. therefore, I canceled out of the install. I found in their KB that
this is a known bug in the setup program and their idea of a work around is
to install everything, uninstall the framework robohelp installed, and then
re-install the correct framework. I guess simply creating a good setup file
is just too much work for them. So my question here is: What's the
likelihood of corrupting something on my computer (mainly VS 1.1) by going
through this process?

Thanks.
 
Hi

I think it is hard to say what will be if we follow the process, because we
did not know what the robohelp framework will do.
Commonly we can install both framework 1.0, 1.1 even the 2.0 on the same
machines, and we can use <requiredRuntimed> or <supportedRuntime> Element
in the app.config to specified runtime version.

So far I think you would better to confirm with the third party product
company if their install behavior will break the running application on
..NET 1.1.

Best regards,

Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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